You can even add a couple of extra sensors and actuators if you need them.
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There's a limit to how many controllers, actuators and wires the body can accommodate.
The newest Forbes billionaire, Bent Jensen, built his fortune by designing and manufacturing linear actuators.
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The equipment in Continental's highly automated vehicle differs from the customized sensors and tailor-made actuators in other automated vehicles.
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In 1986 Jensen started an electronics department so that Linak could make the control boxes needed to use the actuators.
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Linak Headquarters in Nordborg, Denmark The newest Forbes billionaire, Bent Jensen, built his fortune by designing and manufacturing linear actuators.
Think of a mechanical hand where the knuckle joints and the actuators for those joints are integrated right in the joints themselves.
For example, linear actuators help raise or lower a hospital bed or allow solar panels to track the path of the sun.
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The android's face has been modeled on that of a famous newsreader, and sophisticated actuators allow it to mimic her facial movements.
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These actuators maintain the curvature of the surface as the mirror moves.
Shaped like a game controller, it's designed to be used out of the box without extra parts since it comes with many sensors and actuators already on it.
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The actuators combined with signal information from the sensors can alert the driver to potential dangers, and help with things like parking or staying within highway lane markings.
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This uses hydraulic actuators attached to the antiroll bars that crank into action against the natural tendency of the car to flex from side to side in a turn.
"We're going to test the steering actuators on Sol 13, and then we are going to take it out for a test drive here probably around Sol 15, " Watkins said.
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Algorithms devised by Dr Goffer's colleagues at Argo Medical Technologies, the firm he founded to develop ReWalk, analyse the data from the sensors and use the result to operate the actuators.
Inspired to expand development options for their BeagleBone mini computer platforms, participants in the BeagleBoard.org community created cape plug-in boards to enhance the sensors, actuators and interfaces available on the BeagleBone platform.
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Details of exactly how these high-tech tailor's dummies work are closely guarded, pending patent protection, but the basic idea is that a network of actuators inside the dummy will push and pull a flexible outer shell into different shapes.
In 1994 it led a movement to do away with proprietary controls that had prevented customers from, say, mixing and matching its controllers with other manufacturers' peripherals, like sensors, monitors and actuators (powered doohickeys that control valves, levers and conveyors).
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